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Story makes for an

artappraiser — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 05:59:16 +0000

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Story makes for an interesting contrast, though I don't know if I thoroughly buy it:

Quebec Charter of Values a factor in radicalizing foreign fighters: study

Jackie Dunham, CTVNews.ca
Published Friday, June 22, 2018 12:41PM EDT

[....] Senouci also shared that the debate surrounding the Quebec government’s proposed Charter of Values, which sought to ban public sector employees from wearing religious symbols such as the hijab, solidified her feelings of being marginalized and being unwelcome in her own society.

And she wasn’t the only one.

According to a four-year study of foreign fighters who travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight with various jihadist groups since Syria’s slide into civil war following the Arab Spring in 2011, Senouci’s story is far from unique. The young woman experienced similar identity struggles, ideological aspirations, and susceptibility to outside influence as the 29 other foreign fighters interviewed for the study.

The study was conducted by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and led by Canadians Amarnath Amarasingam, a senior research fellow at the institute, and Lorne Dawson, a professor at the University of Waterloo. The researchers compiled data collected from open-ended interviews with 30 men and women who travelled abroad to fight. They also conducted interviews with 43 of their parents, siblings and friends.

Of the 30 interview subjects featured in the study, 11 are Canadian. Twenty-seven of the foreign fighters were men and three were women. More than half (57 per cent) were born to Muslim families while the other 43 per cent were converts to Islam [....]

This is one of the most

artappraiser — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 22:15:59 +0000

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This is one of the most chilling articles I've read in some time. #Denmark has created a tiered system distinguishing between citizens and "ghetto" citizens, who are predominantly Muslim

Some of the details are actually hard to believe: https://t.co/rAAktGUroe pic.twitter.com/dwmtvcDrAR
— Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid) July 2, 2018

I am so gobsmacked by this, I

artappraiser — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:35:12 +0000

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I am so gobsmacked by this, I don't know what to say except to say:

everyone needs to read it.

First thoughts are, with the cavaet that I might change my mind:

Maybe it's not wrong, on the other hand, maybe it's horribly wrong. Something is upside down here.
Does anyone there see the irony, that Denmark, Danish language and culture, is itself merely another ghetto in the context of a globalizing world?
Steve Bannon is one who is surely paying attention
What would Daniel Patrick Moynihan think?